i looked around me, i lost my freedom, my family, my name, my religion, my dignity, everything was lost. i found out that this man i was forced to marry, he actually used to be a political prisoner during the time of the shaw, and when the tables turned, he was an interrogator and torturer within the cycle. it's an old cycle. after he was assassinated, his family, very good people, actually, they intervened, and they brought every government official, and they got me out of jail, but then for six years, the government of iran wouldn't give me a passport, but then there was somehow from my church and other places, and, you know, bribes were paid, and i had to pay money to the iranian government, and i have a recreate for it. i'm going to claim it with interest hopefully one day. [laughter] after that, interestingly enough, i got the passport; right? i have it in my hand. i have a 2-year-old child. i married my boyfriend, the organist in my church in iran, and we wanted to exit, but we couldn't get a visa because they knew we would claim refugee status. it came down to my church again who